Jack Valenti: The Exit Interview

thecounterfeit writes "Engadget has an interview with Jack Valenti, the outgoing president of the MPAA and the object of hatred for many hacker after he took he on DVD Jon, who is retiring tomorrow after more than three decades on the job. Engadget could have been a little harder on him when he says stuff like, "When you go to your department store and you buy 10 Cognac glasses and two weeks later you break two of them, the store doesn't give you two backup copies," but it is at least slightly encouraging to hear that he owns a TiVo."

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1000 algorithms?

[MacroRex]

I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.

Yes, clearly the man is an expert on the tech side of the issue and we all should listen to what he has to say about the tech.

Seriously, nobody should be surprised of the fuss caused by this guy. I mean, who'd be surprised that a truck driver (or a businessman for that matter) would screw up a surgery? Jack would be better off listening more carefully to the suggestions of his tech savvy advisors.

Why, exactly, do we call them "editors"??

[gilroy]

Blockquoth the poster:

Engadget has an interview with Jack Valenti, the outgoing president of the MPAA and the object of hatred for many hacker after he took he on DVD Jon, who is retiring tomorrow after more than three decades on the job.

Wow, I didn't think "DVD Jon" had even been alive for 30 years, much less working in this field!

Oh, wait. The poster meant that Jack Valenti is retiring after three decades. Hmmm, rather an unfortunate syntactic structure there, isn't it? Wouldn't it be great if Slashdot had editors, who could catch the most egregious bad grammar?

Let's not even get into "he took he"...

Language matter. Words mean something. Diction counts. Try learning some.